Russia already deported over 9,000 Ukrainian children, says prosecutor generalRussian invaders deported children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia (Photo:Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)Ukrainian law enforcement officers have already established that more than 9,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Oct. 31.“We understand there may be many more children who have suffered from these crimes, and all the information that comes to us in this regard is verified during the pretrial investigation.”According to Kostin, such actions by Russia are both a war crime and an act of genocide.“Therefore, when investigating these cases, in particular, when collecting evidence, we focus on the fact that such facts constitute both a war crime and an act of genocide,” Kostin said.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that before the full-scale invasion, Russia had planned measures to filter and deport Ukrainians in the occupied territories and used these methods during the war in Chechnya.The Russian invaders are also deporting children from the occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya oblasts, arguing this are “vacation trips” and “evacuation.”Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google News"